![]() It is not an accident that across the globe - from Brazil to the United States to South Africa - Black people, Afro-descendants, Indigenous Peoples and other racialized groups are more likely to contract COVID-19, and to suffer the worst consequences. Oxfam’s recently published report, ‘ The Inequality Virus ’, shows that the coronavirus has exposed, fed off and increased existing inequalities of wealth, gender and race.Īcross the globe, we have seen that the virus has disproportionately impacted those already made vulnerable by systematic racism and other intersectional injustices - and the dangers of this systemic inequality will only grow as vaccine programs begin to roll out. ![]() And while the coronavirus can wreak havoc on anyone, anywhere, there is nothing equal about the impact that COVID-19 has had on marginalized populations. ![]() Photo Credit: Sea Turtle.Ī year after the World Health Organization first declared COVID-19 a global health emergency, we are nearing 100,000,000 cases and over 2,100,000 coronavirus deaths. Townships, whose demographic profile is predominately Black people and people of colour employed in low paying jobs that increase their risk of exposure to COVID-19, have become COVID-19 hotspots.
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